A multiple criteria information system for pedagogical evaluation and professional development of teachers

Abstract

Information systems for the evaluation of pedagogical practices aim to improve teaching activity and encourage the pedagogical development of teachers. The implementation of these systems has been interpreted in different ways, depending on each school's administration board and/or the person responsible for the evaluation process. This ambiguity (and inherent subjectivity) is a barrier to the principles of transparency, equity and fairness in the pedagogical performance evaluation of teachers. From this premise, the main objective of this paper consists in proposing a multiple criteria information system to support the evaluation of pedagogical practices. By combining cognitive mapping and the measuring attractiveness by a categorical based evaluation technique (MACBETH), our framework allows for the conception of a more transparent evaluation system, bringing new insights to the pedagogical appraisal and professional development of teachers. The strengths and weaknesses of our framework are also discussed.

Classifying Residential Real Estate Based on Their Exposure to Crime: a Research Agenda

“…Specifically, cognitive mapping allows evaluation criteria and their relationships to be revealed, while MACBETH facilitates the calculation of the respective trade-offs. Although both approaches have been previous applied and reported in the literature (see, for instance, Ferreira et al 2011;Canas et al 2015;Filipe et al 2015;Oliveira et al 2017), we have found no documented evidence reporting their combined use in the classification context of residential areas according to their exposure to crime.…”

“…This value tree will be operationalized, in a later stage of the structuring process, through the construction of descriptors (i.e. set of ordered performance levels) (see Filipe et al 2015;Gonçalves et al 2016). Next, the MAC-BETH approach will be applied, allowing the trade-offs between FPVs to be calculated, and local performance scales to be obtained for each descriptor.…”

“…As discussed in the literature (cf. Eden, Ackermann 2004;Filipe et al 2015), the construction of a cognitive map is not the final step of the structuring phase, but can provide important information for a transparent definition/selection of the evaluation criteria. Following this, cognitive mapping seems to hold great potential in the context of this study -i.e.…”

Setting Rents in Residential Real Estate: A Methodological Proposal Using Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis

“…The development of this concept has led us to the framework proposed in this paper, which has been successfully tested in other contexts (e.g. Ferreira 2011;Ferreira et al 2015;Filipe et al 2015), but which requires further applications involving different decision makers and different decision situations to ensure the potential and the generalization of the integrated use of these two approaches. It is in this testing stage that we have inserted this paper.…”

Multiple Criteria Decision Methods in Informatics Olympiads

“…These are learning content and learning software evaluation problems (Kurilovas and Serikoviene, 2010), higher education decision making problems, (resource allocation, performance management, budgeting and scheduling) (Ho et al, 2006), using MCDA for accreditation in order to evaluate IT skills and qualifications (Siskosa et al, 2007), evaluating factors that determine the quality of higher education (Tsinidou et al, 2010), evaluation of the quality of e-learning systems (Tzenga et al, 2007) and educational websites (Shee and Wang, 2008), pedagogical evaluation of teachers (Filipe et al, 2015), evaluating quality of learning objects (Kurilovas et al, 2011).…”